Congress president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a rally in Arunachal Pradesh capital Itanagar today. He will launch campaign for both Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state. The state will go on polls for both Assembly and Parliament elections on Aprill 11.
He will address the rally at Indira Gandhi Park Ground in Itanagar.
After this, he will attend a meeting of pparty leaders and block presidents at Hotel Donyi Polo Ashok in the state capital. Same afternoon, he will attend an extended meeting of PCC at Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee in Imphal.
In 2014, Congress won 42 Assembly seats in Manipur. The party, however, has only 5 MLAs as number of leaders have now joined other parties. This is the second visit of the Congress president in Arunachal Pradesh. Last month he was in the state after reports of violence. He had also met two victims.
His sister and Congress general secretary in eastern Uttar Pradesh, will offer prayers in Mirzapur and also attend a rally. She will also meet Congress leaders. On Monday, she was in Prayagraj from where she took a boat to Varanasi, which is represented by PM Narendra Modi in Parliament.
Meanwhile, the party has decided to go alone in West Bengal for Lok Sabha polls. It cleared names of candidates for as many as 11 seats that included two sitting seats of CPM. In neighbouring Bihar too, the seat-sharing ties between Congress and RJD is on. There are reports of some strains between both parties as Congress is insisting on 11 seats.
Both Bihar and West Bengal has 82 Lok Sabha seats, which are crucial for Opposition bid to upstage BJP from Centre. So far, the Congress has managed seat-sharing agreements in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand.